Booking through Thursday: On Friday Night
Feb. 5th, 2010 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wishfulclickingSo Thursdays are horrible for posting and I haven't thought of an alliterative name for a different weekly post on books yet.
There are at least three different thoughts on books I have floating around, and at least one of them could be a complete post if I weren't too lazy to pull it together. I'm having a good conversation about author responsibility with FFM (Favorite Family Member for those who didn't know) over email; it's really enjoyable for me to have a discussion with someone whom I can disagree with on certain points and we can go back and forth without it feeling extremely intense in a negative way.
Now that I think about it, each one would be a separate post and I've yawned too often in the past five minutes to be coherent.
Things Floating in my head related to books:
*How much would I be willing to pay for an ebook? Owning something physically is different from licensing it digitally and I don't see that brought up always in these discussions, but I am coming more towards $9.99 being low for a new release if the hard cover is being pushed for $25 at the same time. The whole agency idea ($15 to start, falling to $5 for certain titles) seems reasonable to me. When I bought The Sims when it first came out I ended up spending over $100 on what soon came to be priced at $40 at a much later date. Things usually are their most expensive when they first come out, and if I don't want to spend that much then I wait.
Eventually I'll revisit this in whole. But in the future(there will be flying cars like the Jetson promised us!) I think a digital version would be offered first, probably at different price points for the super deluxe version with author commentary and interactive graphics to the bare bones pure text version, and then there would also be a print on demand option of buying a paper back or hard cover. I know I'd be more willing to buy a text only version of a story for cheap and then later buy the hard cover if I really liked the book and wanted something more tangible.
Minor Epiphanies:or this is what it feels like I was reading some reviews of a certain book and some comments brought up something I glossed over--a stereotype used that barely registered with me because I was viewing the book through a different lens--this one really will be a complete post but I'm too tired to make things as clear as I possibly can (seriously, even at my most awake things can get hazy, I want to at least start on the right foot)
Dear Author asked the question Straight off the top of your head, do you think that authors have any ethical or moral responsibilities beyond the book? which guaranteed the post and comments would be interesting. I've got thoughts on this one too but I'm definitely not awake enough for that one either.
There are at least three different thoughts on books I have floating around, and at least one of them could be a complete post if I weren't too lazy to pull it together. I'm having a good conversation about author responsibility with FFM (Favorite Family Member for those who didn't know) over email; it's really enjoyable for me to have a discussion with someone whom I can disagree with on certain points and we can go back and forth without it feeling extremely intense in a negative way.
Now that I think about it, each one would be a separate post and I've yawned too often in the past five minutes to be coherent.
Things Floating in my head related to books:
*How much would I be willing to pay for an ebook? Owning something physically is different from licensing it digitally and I don't see that brought up always in these discussions, but I am coming more towards $9.99 being low for a new release if the hard cover is being pushed for $25 at the same time. The whole agency idea ($15 to start, falling to $5 for certain titles) seems reasonable to me. When I bought The Sims when it first came out I ended up spending over $100 on what soon came to be priced at $40 at a much later date. Things usually are their most expensive when they first come out, and if I don't want to spend that much then I wait.
Eventually I'll revisit this in whole. But in the future
Minor Epiphanies:or this is what it feels like I was reading some reviews of a certain book and some comments brought up something I glossed over--a stereotype used that barely registered with me because I was viewing the book through a different lens--this one really will be a complete post but I'm too tired to make things as clear as I possibly can (seriously, even at my most awake things can get hazy, I want to at least start on the right foot)
Dear Author asked the question Straight off the top of your head, do you think that authors have any ethical or moral responsibilities beyond the book? which guaranteed the post and comments would be interesting. I've got thoughts on this one too but I'm definitely not awake enough for that one either.
